The Capture of the Alamo: A Historical Tragedy, in Four Acts, with Prologue |
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Page 70 - ... retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. VICTORY OR DEATH.
Page 70 - I have sustained a continual bombardment and cannonade for twenty-four hours and have not lost a man. The enemy have demanded a surrender at discretion ; otherwise the garrison is to be put to the sword if the fort is taken.
Page 95 - Perdido, on the 19th and 20th of the present month; and as the supreme government has ordered that all foreigners taken with arms in their hands, making war upon the nation, shall be treated as pirates, I have been surprised that the circular of the said supreme government has not been fully complied with in this particular...
Page 96 - I, therefore, order that you should give immediate effect to the said ordinance in respect to all those foreigners who have yielded to the force of arms, having had the audacity to come and insult the Republic, to devastate with fire and sword, as has been the case in Goliad, causing vast detriment to our citizens; in a word, shedding the precious blood of Mexican citizens whose only crime has been their fidelity to their country. I trust that, in reply to this, you will inform me that public vengeance...
Page 95 - But Santa Anna's order to Urrea convicts him. It is as follows : " To GENERAL UEREA, Commander, etc. : [Official.] " In respect to the prisoners of whom you speak in your last communication, you must not fail to bear in mind the circular of the Supreme Government, in which it is decreed, that foreigners invading the republic, and taken with arms in their hands, shall be judged and treated as pirates ; and as, in my view of the matter, every Mexican guilty of the crime of joining these adventurers...
Page 70 - Fellow Citizens and Compatriots : I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls.
Page 92 - general, you can afford to be generous ; you are born to no common destiny — you have conquered the Napoleon of the West." General Houston and Colonel Rusk both assured him that no negotiations could be opened until the cabinet assembled. General Houston then asked him how he expected to negotiate under the circumstances that had occurred at the Alamo. About this time, Colonel Almonte, who had been sent for, arrived ; and, after salutations between him and his chief, the latter replied that " General...
Page 70 - I have answered the summons with cannon-shot and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat.
Page 94 - I give this supreme order,' says Tornel to Cos, ' having the honor to direct it to you, requiring you to provide and bring into action all your ingenuity and activity in arranging energetic plans for success in the apprehension of Don Lorenzo Zavala, which person, in the actual circumstances of Texas, must be very pernicious. To this end I particularly recommend that you spare no means to secure his person, and place it at the disposition of the Supreme Government.
Page 94 - His plan was as follows : to drive from the province all who had taken part in the revolution, together with all foreigners who lived near the seacoast or the borders of the United States ; to remove far into the interior those who had not taken part in the war ; to vacate all sales and grants of land owned by non-residents ; to remove from Texas all who had come to the province, and were not entered as colonists under Mexican rules ; to divide among the officers and soldiers of the Mexican army...